@inproceedings{duan-etal-2026-mechanistic, title = "Mechanistic Interpretability for Understanding Language Abilities in Large Language Models: A Survey", author = "Duan, Xufeng and Yao, Zhaoqian and Zhou, Xinyu and Fu, Zihao and Kan, Beijia and Wang, Yibo and Xiao, Bei and Zhang, Hengyuan and Tang, Xuemei and Nie, Ercong and Cai, Zhenguang", editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi and Dev, Sunipa and Li, Jessy and Elliott, Desmond", booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {EMNLP} 2026", month = oct, year = "2026", address = "Budapest, Hungary", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.464/", pages = "9735--9759", ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0" }